Senior Infrastructure Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of a core infrastructure product or subsystem from conception through to delivery, operation, and accountability in production.

• Establish project objectives and success metrics that align with the company's goals.

• Proactively identify and mitigate project risks.

• Develop technical designs based on Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and specifications.

• Construct secure, high-performance, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure.

• Design, develop, and deploy software and tools aimed at developers.

• Manage infrastructure using code and configuration, primarily leveraging Terraform.

• Collaborate with product engineering teams to design services that can scale effectively.

• Engage in incident response and troubleshoot issues across various services.

• Optimize and enhance monitoring systems while suggesting improvements for stability and performance.

• Implement security measures and identify vulnerabilities in your own work and during peer reviews.

• Act as a technical resource and mentor for engineers through code reviews, collaborative coding, and design feedback.

• Promote cross-team collaboration and lead technical and process discussions with stakeholders outside of engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6–10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering primarily within cloud-based environments (AWS preferred).

• Proven track record of managing a product or subsystem from start to finish.

• T-shaped skill set with deep expertise in one or two areas, complemented by broad systems knowledge.

• Strong practical experience in managing infrastructure via code and configuration (Terraform or similar tools).

• Proficiency in networking, load balancing, containerization (EKS/Kubernetes), and distributed systems.

• Solid programming abilities in Go, Python, or a similar language.

• Practical experience in operating Redis/ElastiCache, including cluster/shard management, failover handling, memory eviction policies, and scaling strategies.

• Background in observability tools, performance optimization, and incident management.

• Familiarity with software engineering best practices such as source control, code reviews, comprehensive test coverage, and secure deployment.

• High degree of personal accountability and independence, including experience working with ambiguous requirements.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Must have authorization to work from the home location.

• No visa sponsorship is available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Complete remote work flexibility.

• Opportunity to work from nearly any country, subject to regulatory and security constraints.

• Visa sponsorship is not offered.

• Supportive and inclusive work environment.

• CCPA notice for California residents.

• GDPR notice for EU residents.